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African Development

African Development. Culture, Settlers and Policy Debates. The Issue:. Europe in Africa: nature of the relationship. Settlers. Impact on the Whole Continent Question: Was Europe’s Relationship with Africa Different than with the Middle East, Asia and Latin America

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African Development

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  1. African Development Culture, Settlers and Policy Debates

  2. The Issue: Europe in Africa: nature of the relationship

  3. Settlers • Impact on the Whole Continent • Question: Was Europe’s Relationship with Africa Different than with the Middle East, Asia and Latin America • The New Settlers: Foreign Aid Workers, Contractors and Missionaries

  4. Settlers: The Issue and the Problem • Francophone Africa: • North Africa, Algeria and permanent association • The Importance of “Francophonie” on Culture and Values

  5. West Africa • Role of the "Syrians" and "Lebanese“ • Arabs as "settlers?“ • People of mixed race? • Who are indigenous peoples?

  6. Eastern and Southern Africa • Indians in Eastern and Southern Africa • Asians- The forgotten settlers • Amin, Mugabe and the indigenous people argument

  7. Missionaries, Traders and Settlers • British Settlers • Missionaries and Settlers • East Africa, the Federation • Southern Africa • The special issue of Namibia

  8. Kenya • "White Mischief"- Settlers in Kenya • Land and Compromise • e. Post-colonial "whites"

  9. Zimbabwe • Military demobilization and Rhodesia • "Home Rule"- UDI • Zimbabwe and Non-racialism • Indigenous Peoples and Land

  10. The Other Europeans • Portugal and Portuguese • mass settlement and "provincial" status Over one million overseas Settlers (eg. Theresa Heinz) • Belgians, Greeks, Germans, Italians, Dutch, Americans-

  11. South Africa • Dutch- settlement and movement • “So Called Coloureds“ [ and Indians] • 1815: End of Napoleonic War • 1820s settlers: British • British vs. Dutch-

  12. South Africa • Trusteeship vs. Assimilation • Segregation vs. Apartheid- "Homelands" as nations • Afrikaans vs. African Nationalism • Majority rule vs. minorities

  13. South Africa • Role of working class and poor whites • Mining and labor reserve- "peasant based proletariat • Multi-racialism, non-racialism vs. “Africanization”

  14. Settlers: Profile 1955-1970 • Algeria: 1,000,000 (1955) • Angola: 700,000 (1970) • Mozambique: 250,000 (1970) • Eritrea: 22,000 (Italians 1955)

  15. Francophone Africa • Congo (Belgium): 110,000 (1958) • Burundi: 5,000 • Francophone: 30,000 (“colon”- estimated) • Indians and Arabs (60,000)

  16. East Africa: 1965 • Tanganyika • Whites: 23,000 • Indians 100,000 • Kenya • Whites: 78,000 • Indians: 110,000 • Uganda • Whites: 3,000 • Indians: 78,000

  17. Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland • Federation: • Indians: 30,000 • Whites:310,000 • Northern Rhodesia: whites: 76,000 • Southern Rhodesia: whites: 223,000 (1975-270,000) • Nyasaland: 9,300

  18. Mixed Race • Eastern and Central Africa • 80,000 people • Issue- Loyalty to the State and conflict with Indigenous Peoples

  19. Southern Africa- 1985 Botswana- • Whites 5,000 • Mixed Race 2,000 • Swaziland • Whites 8,000 • Mixed Race 4,000 (Eurafrican) • Namibia- • Whites100,000 (23,000 German speakers) • Mixed Race: 22,000

  20. South Africa Profile, 1985 • White: 4,800,000 (14.8%) (60% Afrikaans, 40% English and others) (Jewish South Africans approximately 100,000 people) • “Coloured:” 2,900,000 (8.7%) (Mixed Race- 80% Afrikaans speaking, 20% English Speaking)

  21. South Africa Profile, 1985 • Indians 900,000 (2.7%) • Africans: 24,000,000 (72%) • Indigenous: San-Khoisian: 31,000 (less than .5%) • Others: Chinese, Japanese, Arabic (30,000- less than .5%)

  22. Race and Culture • Biology vs. Attitudes • Race vs. Ethnicity • The Colonial Lingua Franca and Indigenous Languages • Pre-indigenous vs. Mixed Race Peoples: Who is an African

  23. South Africa and the World • Prior to WW II. White Dominion • Investment and Mines • World Wide Similarity of Values • Part of “British Empire • Independent, legal, legitimate

  24. South Africa and the World • Decolonization • 1948 and Apartheid • Homelands and Nationalism • Anti-Communism • White Nationalism like Black Nationalism

  25. South Africa and the World • “Tar Baby”- Nixon, Kissinger and Apartheid • Benign Neglect • Tilt to the Whites, Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa • 1975-1986 • Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Sanctions

  26. Discussion 1.The impact of Settlers (Both European, Middle Eastern and Asian) on "their" part of Africa. 2.Francophone Issue: the impact of France on the region as a part of a European image and the extent to which the French in West Africa are "settlers.“ 3.The New Settlers?

  27. Authors What have you been reading this week?

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